Archive for February 2024

Coach Cletus In a dimly-lit West Texas barroom, I find myself in the presence of a man with a very powerful life force that commands attention. He’s a cowboy with a build that screams tactical hypertrophy – the perfect blend of strength and functionality. With a half-cocked grin, he walks up to the bar and…

by: Josh Bryant “Coach” was bonafide old head YMCA legend hailing from Whitehouse, Tennessee. Picture him with tight 1980s football coach bike shorts and built like a brick shithouse.  So, one day at the local kick n’ stab bar, some young buck bodybuilder starts talking pretty big for a one eyed fat man about his…

By: Josh Bryant and Joe Giandonato Fred Hatfield utilizing post activation potentiation (PAP) pre-deadlift If you want to take a good look at a T-bone steak, you can stick your head up a bull’s ass or take the butcher’s word. If option one is needed, please review last week’s newsletter. Otherwise, T-bones, anyone? Let’s get…

by: Josh Bryant Periodization—My Theory and Application There I was, one night, curiosity running wild. I got lured by “Moonshine Paradise,” neon lights flickering in Cheatham County, due west of old man Chambers’ tobacco farm. Lo and behold, Brother Barrett himself, ruling at the pool table right in that notorious trailer park my mom warned…

by Josh Bryant and Joe Giandonato Peter Edgette executing isometric bench presses in part for a PAP effect. Ben Johnson squatted 600 pounds 10 minutes prior to running a 9.79-second 100-meter dash world-record in 1988! Was Johnson’s coach, Charlie Francis, outhouse rat crazy or drunker than Cooter Brown? Jeremy Hoornstra did a maximal isometric contraction…